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“It’s not involving her,” Dr. Green said. “It’s asking her opinion. That’s not getting involved.”

“What’s wrong?” I asked, ready for them to tell me there was a bomb or a fight or a boogeyman that needed to be taken care of.

Kota glanced at the others quickly before settling his gaze back on me again. “Silas is out on an Academy job.”

“I haven’t heard from him since the football game yesterday.”

“Right, and there’s another job he could take, too. One that’s... well the Academy really wants him on this one.”

“So why not call him?” I asked.

“It may compromise his current job,” Mr. Blackbourne said. He crossed his arms over his chest. “We try not to submit Academy details about jobs via text or phone calls. It’s too easy to intercept.”

“Isn’t there a secret code or signal you could use?”

“Not now,” he said. “Especially since Volto went silent. We secured ourselves as much as possible, but it’s limiting now when we aren’t sure where he might be. If we use code, it’ll be obvious.”

“So no Bat Signal?”

Gabriel cracked with laughter. The others grinned, except for Mr. Blackbourne, who simply said, “No. We need to talk to him in person.”

“Do you want him to come back?”

“We want to tell him to hurry with his job, without compromising it, and without alerting anyone else as to why we need him back. We just need to know if he’ll be back in time to take this new job or if we need to tell them to go to someone else. Everyone else either can’t do it or they’re busy.”

It took me a moment to think of what to do, but after I had it, I dipped my fingers into my bra, pulling out my new iPhone in the pink case. The old one had cracked. I forgot how many phones I’d been through the last few months. I punched a message at the screen.

“What are you doing?” Kota asked. “We said not to ask him directly to come back.”

I finished my text and sent it. “I didn’t.”

Mr. Blackbourne gave me a scrutinizing look. “You just sent him a text?”

“Yes.”

His eyes narrowed. “I wish you would have shown it to me first.”

My phone vibrated to life in my hands. I checked the screen. “He’ll be back tonight.”

The room silenced. Did they not expect me to help? Isn’t that what they asked me to do?

“What did you say?” Dr. Green asked.

I shrugged, holding out my phone, allowing them to read the screen.

Sang: “Miss you.”

Silas: “7.”

“That means he’ll be back at seven, right?” I asked.

Surprised filled each of their faces. Victor was gawking. There were smiles on the other faces, and Mr. Blackbourne’s stood out the most, a millimeter at most, but dazzling me with the warmth.

It was Kota who finally nodded. “Yeah,” he said.

“Is that all you needed?”

“Uh huh.”

“I’ll uh... guess I’ll go see what North and Nathan are up to.”

The Academy

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